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Our piano warerooms are over-crowded and we must dispose of several carloads
of pianos before November 1. Our purchases for the Christmas trade are beginning
to come in and we Have not the room to properly display them. As we announced
last week, we have on our floors several car loads of
HIGH GRADE STANDARD INSTRUME NTS
That were to be hero for our great Ak-Sar-Ben trade, but on aooount of the New York
Piano Makers Strike, they were delayed until last week. In all our twenty-five years
of business, we have never had so many or such a splendid variety of Standard
Pianos on our floors at one time. We invite a comparison of qualities and
CHALLENGE OTHERS TO MEET OUR PRIDES
They can not do it. Their loss would be too great, even if they met our prices on
their much inferior goods. Our spot cash buying brings us a much lower cost price
than other dealers receive, therefore we can well afford to sell HIGHER PIANO
QUALITY for less mony.
"We advise all prospective piano buyers to visit our department before making
their piano purchase. In this sale will be offered
Brand New, Direct From the Factory, High Grade Standard Pianos
at prices that are quoted in the majority of cases on 2d-hand or used instruments.
We are quoting below just ten prices on brand new, just from the factory pianos,
every one ordinarily would bring twice1 the amount we are asking. If the styles in
this list are not what you want, w,e have several hundred other equally great bar
gains. Look them over. Every instrument absolutely guaranteed to be just as it is
represented. i
Colonial Oak ....$169
Art Style Walnut 179
Golden Oak 179
Art Style, Massive Mahogany. . . 249
Art Style, Massive Walnut ...... 279
Figured Dark Oak $169
Oolenial Circ. Walnut 138
Artistic Model, plain Mahogany. 159
Boudoir Style, plain Oak . . ltfO
Plain Golden Oak, full brass rim. 179
Remember We give a guarantee that protects the buyer. Kemember We are
offering the most liberal terms. Our prices are 50 per cent lower than you can get
elsewhere.
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Serge Suits, $10
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Sweater Coats,
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A HAN AGAINST A SYSTEM
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Pen Picture of Judge Who Presided
in. New York Police Graft.
BIO TASK BEFORE THE COVET
Gambler Traced? and Its Ramifica
tion Subjected to Judicial
Review Before Veteran
Prober.
The great importance of tyie , Booker
case, the powers and motives . back
of It, the possibilities of baring a public
scandal rivaling the Infamies of Tweed
and his associates so Impressed the mem
bers of New York City's supreme court
that they assigned to the criminal branch
Justice Ooft, a veteran of the bench,
to preside at this trial and over all re
lated cases. Nation-wide Interest has
been aroused by the tragedy and the su
sequent revelations, , consequently the
characteristics of the presiding Judge will
five the reader an insight into the man
ner in whioh the case will be handled
from the benoh.
A New York correspondent of the Bos
ton Transcript draws a pen picture of the
man and bis manner of dispensing justice
as follow
Justice Ooff Is a slender, ereot man
of middle height, His long hair is white,
and bis white beard, not long, shows of
the rather narrow faoe only the forehead,
nose and a little of the oheeks, whleh
latter ire of a curious, soft ruddiness.
But yo soon see onty the piercing blue
eyes, in which seems oonaentrated all
the compelling tore and dignity of the
man. Bis vote, a he speaks to the olwk
of the court, ft notJoeafcly mild. His men
ner, while te a tray (entle, is at the same
time austere. He look like fine steel
covered with vJt. You mar the
truth that he ft Irish.
Justice Ootri. personality MU him
snore the common run of New Ytk
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of a suit is not always
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worth. If we make
your c 1 o t h e 8 the
goods are high grade,
all wool, the work
manship first class
and the style perfect.
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preme court judges as a lighthouse towers
above a low-lying fog. ' There are now,
and have been in the past, some able men
on the New York bench, possibly men of
greater ablHty, merely as lawyers,' than
Justice Goff. But it is douuuul If there
is or has been another judge so well fit,
for every reason, to undertake the pres
ent work of investigation and punish
ment By many Justice Goff is alled a harsh
trial judge, and there are some incidents
of his career on the bench which seem
to lend force to the criticism. He has,
beyond Question, a brusque and oauetio
way of disposing of many matters that
come up tn his oourt; and he rather often
treats counsel to a stinging reply or bit
of comment that is quite unnecessary.
In common parlance, he "gets his Irish
up" on what seems like very slight
provocation, and then outs loose with a
tongue that needs but few words to do
great execution.
When he takes a hand in the question
ing of a witness, the spectator Is quick to
understand why he Is feared and dreaded
as a croBS-examlner. His mind does pot
have to climb the stairs of a carefully ar
ranged series of questions before it ar
rives at the floor above. Instead, it
jumps, taking witness, prisoner and coun
sel a long leap that leaves them rathei
breathless, and with an inner impulso to
axoleim, "Oood Lord! How did we gel
here so soon!" His questions are like
flashes of lightning not that they are o
swift in time interval, but because the)
bare for an instant the heart of things,
and then leave behind a bewildering dark
ness, If you have ever tried to walk ovei
rough ground by the light of Intermittent
lightning flashes, you oaa imagine tht
sensations of an unwilling witness. You
don't know "what minute gwine tor be
de nex," and you'd a lot rather have
blank darkness than this merciless, inter
mittent illumination. Many of the wit
nesses examined by Ooff in the Lexow
investigation are said to have felt this
range of sensations rather acutely; and
some of them were quite prostrated after
the storm had passed. Justice Ooff has
no patience with pottering slowness and
verbosity, and he often reaches a point
where it seems as though he could not
resist the impulse to oleaf away the rub
bish with a few swift strokes of his own.
The Maklngl of a Mas,
Justice Ooff it a self-mad man, and
the manner and metnod of the making
throw a good deal of Ught on the man a
he now is. t To get - quickly over the
statistical beginning, Justice Ooff was
born in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1880,
of a family that had for generations been
active in sacrificing even their lives in the
struggle for the independence of Ireland.
His father and mother died when he wa
about 9 years old, and be then lived with
an undo until he was 14. Then he learned
telegraphy, and was in the government
servloe in both England and Bootland,
leaving that etrvlos shortly, to go to
Brasll. Sidetracked by yellow fever, he
was landed In Argentina, and from there
he made his way north, landing in New
York in the summer of 198. He got a
job, t&uOly, with X. .T. Stewart and
studied o nights, taking aourses at the
Cooper institute- pretty determined pro
gram for an orphan boy of 15 in a strange
country. He was goon advanced by Mr.
Stewart to a responsible position which
h held uatil IfiTS, when he left to study
Istw In a Isw offine. As he got no salary
there, ha had to support himself by night
work a telegraphy and by Writing for
the newspapers. He married In 1874, was
'admitted to the bar two years later, and
at one entered private pmotiee.
To one who has not received the Im
pression ef personal lnteroourse with Jus
tice Goff it may seem noteworthy that tin,
young Goff did not ally himself with the
new Tammany which rose under John
Kelly on the ruins of Boss Tweed. Goff
has always been a democrat, but up to
the t-me of his election as recorder of the
court of general sessions, following the
Lexow inquiry, the only office he had held
was that of an assistant dlstrlct.attorney
under John R. Fellows. The mental and
moral fastidiousness of the man, hardly
less than his inflexible honesty, must have
made any active alliance with Tamman
impossible to him. He ran for the offlct,
of distriot attorney in 1890 against De
lancy NIooll, but was beaten. Prom thai
time until h's appearance In the Lexow In
vestigation Goff was little known to tht
general public. Since the beginning ot
that investigation Tammany, which he
has always opposed, has feared him. H's
public life since his election as recordet
has been passed In his court room. His
private life has been tranquil, Incon
spicuous and without blemish.
BOSS SPOTTER OF CROOKS
New Yorker Conld Nab Thief From
Dncrlptlort and Seldom
Made a Mistake.
Seymour Beutler, for years the iden
tlfier for the Pinkerton Detective agency,
is dead at his home in, New York City.
It was said of Beutler that he had a
knowledge of 16,000 crooks of various
sorts and that those whom he knew
would have to put on very effeotive dis
guises to keep him from recognising them
again.
For years he went to state and national
conventions to look over the rowd that
entered the halls for familiar faces; in
the race track days his post was outside
the track to see that no pickpockets got
past the gatekeeper.
Most of the crooks whom he knew well
enough to pick out of a crowd he had
never seen, but his memory for descrip
tions was so good that he seldom made a
mistake. Besides descriptions he made it
a part of his work to memorise the rec
ords of those he needed to know.
For the last thirty years he had been
in demand for the entrances to Important
meetings of , all sort. He had traveled
from one end of the country to the other
Identifying criminals who had never seen
him. The ears, Beiitler said, were his
principal means of Identification; they
never change and cannot be disguised.
Mr. Beutler was a slender, gray haired,
gray mustached man, but he had great
powers of endurance. He was at work
on a forgery oaae one time, where a firm
rf pork packers had lost $40,000. He
traced an employe of the firm' to Canada
and then decided to put him under sur
veillance, Beutler hired an adjoining room and
went two days without food or sleep,
keeping a eqnstant watoh on his man.
He wanted to see if his man had certain
His identlfloation of Billy Coleman,
papers necessary for the ease and Beutlsr
didn't leave the door until he made cer
tain that the man had these, An arrest
followed and the forger settled with the
firm by giving back VA.VO,
One of Bou tier's famous oases! was the
arrest of Sophie Lyons, the most no
tortoxis and clever woman thief tn rbe
United States. He had caught her enoe
la Springfield, Mass., picking t pooket
and tried to arrest her. The eatery she
raised brought a crowd down en Beutler
and hs was badly beaten,
who stole 160,000 from the Coo pore town,
S. Y office of Ambrose Clark, son-in-law
of Blfcip Potter, was considered re
markable. Coleman was taken in New
York with some of the jewels, but the
keadquarWs deteetlvee oonTd net say whe
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Boy's Suits and Overcoats
We have never shown such winter clothes for boys, nor such great
varieties as are ready at this stole now. The good things you've
come to know about this store are only magnified by the Immense show
ing of fall and winter garments. The standard of quality and value
giving are higher than ever before. Assortments greater and varieties
better than at any previous time. If you have not already done so,
"Give us your boy to clothe." We will save you from 11.00 to $2.50
on every garment.
Suits and Overcoats, $2.00 to $12.00
ere
Thousands of fine Overcoats.
A showing now that is abso
lutely in a class by itself; no
other store to compare with it
in smartness of models, absolute cor
rectness of styles, variety of patterns
and fabrics, perfection of tailoring, fit
and values; no taste we cannot please,
no form we cannot fit, no purse we
cannot accommodate. Overcoats for
every purpose and occasion. The prices
start at $10 and range upward to $40.
As representative Berg values
ii5 ask you to inspect the three
great lines at $15, $20 and $25
Several thousand suits on Berg's great suit floor
a half dozen stores in one. , The advantage of se
lecting a fall suit nt Berg's will be apparent to every
clothing buyer. Tn this great department prepara
tions have been inde to care for both the artisan
and the millionaire. Here you will find suits of the
most inexpensive character at $10 and up and the
highest quality at $40.
We call your attention to four
wonderful lines in every weave,
pattern and style, from Kup
penheimer, Schloss Bros., Stein
Bloch and Society Brand at
$15. $20, $25' and $30.
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Vassar and
Superior Union
Suits, $1.00 to $5
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Trunks, "Travel
ing Bags and
Suit Cases,
$1.00 to $35
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he was. Buetler, who had never seen
him, but had spen a photograph of the
crook once, accosted Coleman as If he
had . known him well and the prisoner
admitted Ids Identity.
To Pat fiheedv has generally been given
credit for recovering the Gainsborough
portrait of the duchess of Devonshire.
but the story hae been, told that it was
BeuUer who first learned where the pic
ture was. A convict sentenced to Danne
mora. to whom Adam Worth had confided
the hiding place of the picture, told Beut
ler, and after Sheedy had conducted tne
npB-ntlB.tlon for the return of the picture
Robert Pinkerton delivered It to the,Ag-
news in London, the original owners.
Beutler had the first copy of the picture
ever made.
He had -a wide acquaintance with rac
ing men through his own connection with
the track and was very popular. Barney
Schreiber once named a horse after Beut
ler. Beutler had charge of the Pinkerton
work at the Polo grounds. Three years
am h left the Plnkertons and started
the Greater Now York Detective agency.
New York Bun.
WASHINGTON MYSTERY HOUSE
Octagon, Where Dolly Madison Set
Up Conrt was Scene of Ro
mantic Tragedy.
Don't let anybody tell you the story of
the old Octagon Hones In Washington
after dark you'll have to sleep with the
light on all night if you dol Why, It's
the kind of a story that will send all
manner of dellolous, indefinable little
shivers and thrills over you at 10 a. m.
on a sunshiny day.
Octagon House Is where Dolly Madi
son, the fascinating, set up her Demo
oratlo Court of the Republic when the
British burned the White House in 181.
And as if that were not romance enough
for any house to oiaim, there are ghost
stories galore, two more or less well-authenticated
underground passageways, a
secret stairway and secret doors open
ing out of blank wsjls. Here Is a really
old time mystery house. From It runs
a secret passageway, now walled up, to
the White House itself, and for this, the
story goes, Dolly was responsible.
As runs the story, the clever and de
lightful Dolly, really the first mistress
the White House error had, with that
queer psychological twist not uncommon
In j the feminine mind, knew In her pro-
phetio soul that in time the defeated Brit
ish would want another tost of prowess
with the valiant little republic of, the
Now World. When such time should
oome, she figured cleverly again, the
White House would be a point of attaok
and she Vlhed be prepared for a
seoret flight, Bh knew the Tyloes, who
owned Octagon house, very intimately,
Kenoe, the senrei passageway,
Put whan the time far ar anticipated
flight earns something ''interfered with
the prearranged plan, The British aama,
torch in hand, almost to the door of the
White House! . . Dolly lingered lane
enough to gather her priceless silver and
t cot the Gilbert fttuart portrait of
Washing ten from Its heavy gold frame
before she fled by the south porUoe and
sought shelter with friends in Virginia,
whanee her husband had preceded her.
Some months later she returned to Wash
ington and then It was that the Octagon
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(JreiiteNt, Huit Sale
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of Oyer 1,000 Suits j
Will Be the Talk of T
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Starts at 8 OXlock Salurday Horning
MILLER BROS. (N. Y.) ENTIRE STOCK OF
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igh Class Tailored Suits i
uvcr
For Women and Misses
that were made to sell for
$30.00, $35.00, $40.00
and $45.00 your choice
Saturday at .
All the suits are perfectly tailored of the finest all wool ma
terials in the very newest styles.
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house became the home of the presiden
tial family,
Ths strange troublous tlmea In which
the bouse was built it was a building
while Washington was prealdcnt must
have had some share In determining its
mysterious construction. The architect
was a man of renown, Dr. William
Thornton, who designed the capitol.'and
aided Jefferson years later In the plans
for the University of Virginia.
The hmiss Is full of secret doors and
even now,, wide opon and to bo Inspected
by anyone who elects, there la a tunnel
leading out under Eighteenth street.
Where the destination may have been
none of this generation can say, for most
of the land In that part of ths city has
been changed by filing In. Oemmunloa-t-Ing
with this underground passage Is a
back ntfttrway running from ths basement
to the third floor, and either the second
or third landings are rsaohed from It
through secret doors. The bssoboards
and ohairhoards on the blind side run far
past the dcors before being out through,
and eftar all thosa years ths Joining re
mains so nearly porfset that none but a
quiest ays detects the slightest s4peamnos
of aa opening, for there are no keyhole,
hinges or knobs,
The tm'.aue arrangement of the house,
which is V-tlt In octagon shape on the
outside and with rooms surrounding the
circular hall, with a spiral utalrway run
nlng from basement to roof, and all the
rooms connecting some of them by se
cret doors, to be sure Is such that had
an arresting party entered anyone famil
iar with the house or even passably clever
might have escaped quickly and quietly.
Quick egress also was provided for from
what was once the dining-room through
a secret door Into a closet and out to the
street through a casement window.
Such are the actual facts. The ghostly
personages who gather there constitute
another story. Philadelphia Telegraph.
MOTHERS ORGANIZE TO
HELP IN SCHOOL WORK
Thlrty-nlne mothers In Miller Park
school distriot have organised a club to
meet and confer with teaoliers, discuss
school problems and plans for making a
better school and more beautiful build
ings. Mrs, Charles Thiem was elected presi
dent, Mrs, J. N. Jenkins, vice president;
Mrs, D, T. Gregg, secretary; Mrs. Ous
( X Hallo, treasurer, and Mrs. W. I
Liftok, treasurer,
Last ssitog the members ef ths olub,
prior to the present organization, gave
a social and raised 170 to purchase pic
tures. This year a moving picture ma
chine has been borrowed from Fort
Omaha and another entertainment will
be given to secure funds to decorate the
Interior of tho Sillier Park school.
When the Miller Park building is com
plete this club will meet in the assembly'
room. They are now meeUng in the old
Miller Park building. . .
Key to the Situation Bee Advertilng.
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A Bachelor's Reflections. .. ,
A girl catches a man by making him
think he Is catching her.
The best way for a girl to daub color
on her cheeks Is with a mustache.
If, Instead of walking, a woman wad
dles she knows she does it gracefully.
It's a pity it isn't against the law to
save money, for then everybody would
do it. ,
There's a kind of man who ean pooh-.
pooh Cromwell and Napoleon because
they didn't have steam heat. V
The baby Is never going to feel so ba4:
about looking like its father as its mother,
feels.
Telling a woman she has pearls in her
mouth isn't going to cure her of wanting
some for her neck. -
Whenever ths coal bills for a man's,
family go up anywhere near the oigax
bills for himself, he begins to denounoa
extortion. New York Press
